Supermarket News

1 day ago | supermarketnews.com | Rachel Gignac

Foxtrot Café & Market on Thursday plans to open its first new-build location since the urban convenience-store chain reopened in September, following the bankruptcy of its former parent company. The seventh Chicago location is located at 935 W. Webster Ave. in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. The urban convenience-store chain closed all of its stores in April 2024, and parent company Outfox Hospitality later declared bankruptcy.

3 days ago | supermarketnews.com | Rachel Gignac

The United States and China have agreed to a 90-day pause on their respective tariffs, announced on Monday by the Trump Administration at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, following negotiations with China over the weekend. Both sides said they will take action by Wednesday. During the 90-day pause, the U.S. will reduce its 145% tariff to 30% on Chinese goods, including a 10% baseline tariff and a 20% additional tariff on fentanyl-related products.

1 week ago | supermarketnews.com | Timothy Inklebarger

Albertsons Companies, Inc. is jumping into the office supply delivery game with the expansion of its ecommerce platform to more than 2,000 locations. The grocery chain said on Tuesday the expansion includes the following banners: Albertsons, ACME, Safeway, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Star Market, Vons, Pavilions, Tom Thumb, and Randalls. Albertsons operates some 2,270 stores, 1,728 in-store pharmacies, 405 fuel centers, 22 dedicated distribution centers, and 19 manufacturing facilities, as of Feb.

1 week ago | supermarketnews.com | Timothy Inklebarger

Instacart’s new party-centric app Fizz, launched on Tuesday, could go flat following a trademark lawsuit filed on Wednesday by Fizz Social Corp. in a California district court. The New York City-based social media and commerce company, which targets college students and others in the Gen Z demographic, argues in the lawsuit that San Francisco-based last-mile delivery company Instacart and its business partner Partiful are competing head-on and using the company’s trademarked name.

1 week ago | supermarketnews.com | Mark Hamstra

Costco Wholesale Corp. said its sales growth slowed in April, attributing the slowdown at least in part to the later Easter holiday this year. U.S. comparable-store sales were up 7.1% for the month, excluding gasoline, compared with April of last year. That marked a slowdown following comp-store sales growth of 8.6% in March. Costco’s U.S. comp-store sales have averaged about 9% during the last several months.